Labels:text | screenshot | font | number | display | software OCR: ENVIRODATA 1.0 File Edit Help Agent Orange was a DIOXIN herbicide (defoliant) used by the U.S. in the + Vietnam War in an operation called Ranch Hand. Doctors in Hanoi says the U.S. sprayed 72 million liters (19 million gallons) of defoliant on more than two million hectares (nearly five million acres] of forests in South Vietnam between 1961 and 1971. Children of North Vietnamese soldiers exposed to HERBICIDES (including Agent Orange) had children born with cleft lips, without noses, with shortened limbs, without eyes, with malformed ears, with club feet, water on the brain, and with part or all of the brain missing. A variety of heart problems were also reported. Doctors in Vietnam say dioxin may have entered the gene pool of the two million Vietnamese living in the sprayed region. In 19 ...